Principal Designer - Banking (Remote, Fintech)

Block; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 252,000 - 377,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Retirement savings plans

Modern family planning

Job summary

Block is seeking a Principal Designer to join the Cash App Banking team. This hands-on role requires taking zero‑to‑one ideas from thesis to shipped experiences with exceptional craft and systems thinking.

You will lead complex Banking initiatives, raise the design bar, and collaborate across Product, Engineering, Risk, and Research to translate regulatory logic into clear, trusted user experiences.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product design experience with a portfolio showing exceptional craft and systems thinking.
• A track record of shipping zero-to-one products, not only iterating on existing ones.
• Mastery of interaction, visual, and systems design, and the judgement to know which one a problem actually needs.
• Experience designing in fintech, banking, health, or another regulated space where clarity and trust are essential.
• Proven ability to operate autonomously through ambiguity, setting your own direction and bringing partners with you.
• Fluency with AI and prototyping tools, and a real point of view on how they change design practice.
• Strong influence and communication skills as a peer to cross-functional leadership.
• Hands-on posture. You still design, and your own work sets the standard.

Responsibilities

• Own complex, ambiguous Banking initiatives end to end, from early exploration through shipped product
• Drive zero-to-one product experiences that are both strategically sharp and visually distinctive
• Set and hold the quality bar for Banking design, defining what excellent looks like and demonstrating it in your own work
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, and Research as a trusted peer, translating complex financial and regulatory logic into experiences people immediately understand
• Prototype early and often, using AI and emerging tools to compress the distance between an idea and something people can actually use
• Shape long‑term product vision and design strategy across Banking surfaces, and influence what makes the roadmap
• Contribute to and extend the systems and patterns Cash App is built on, strengthening cohesion across products
• Elevate the designers around you through critique, feedback, and modeling high craft

Skills

Product design experience

Zero-to-one shipping

Interaction design

Visual design

Systems design

Autonomy

AI prototyping

Cross-functional leadership

Hands-on design

Job description

Block is seeking a Principal Designer to join the Cash App Banking team. This hands-on role requires taking zero‑to‑one ideas from thesis to shipped experiences with exceptional craft and systems thinking.

You will lead complex Banking initiatives, raise the design bar, and collaborate across Product, Engineering, Risk, and Research to translate regulatory logic into clear, trusted user experiences.